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Here's something that might help you understand why difficult things Happen to us sometimes...
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly.
One day small opening appeared.
He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours
as it struggled to force its body through that little
hole. Then it seemed to stop making any
progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as
far as it could, and it could go no
further. So the man decided to help the butterfly.
He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the
cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it
had a swollen body and small, shrivelled wings.
The man continued to watch the butterfly
because he expected that, at any moment,
the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to
support the body, which would contract in time.
Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly
spent the rest of its life crawling around with
a swollen body and shrivelled wings.
It never was able to fly.
What the man, in his kindness and haste,
did not understand was that the restricting
cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly
to get through the tiny opening were Allah's way
of forcing fluid from the body of the
butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready
for flight once it achieved its freedom from the
cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are
exactly what we need in
our lives. If Allah allowed us to go
through our lives without any obstacles,
it would cripple us.
We would not be as strong as what we
could have been. We could never "fly"!
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